If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think. — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
There's no other job in public life that is like chairman of the Fed. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Standards in public life have decayed over time... Incompetence is the norm. — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
In my private life, it was a disaster. In my public life, it was fantastic. — Rob Ford Copy Share Image
You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important. — Rahul Dravid Copy Share Image
Politics and public life are not for the faint of heart. It has been and always will be a noisy and cantankerous… — Charlie Baker Copy Share Image
I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
Negative personal attacks have no place in public life and serve to erode public confidence in our basic institutions of government. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I didn't write about aspects of my public life because that's a small part of my life. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
You don't know how long you have in public life... I want to make the best of it while I've got the… — Gladys Berejiklian Copy Share Image
People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what… — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
Tim Bee has demonstrated his toughness and his compassion, his ability to lead while at the same time listening to others. These… — Jim Kolbe Copy Share Image
I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
There's the human side of people who are in public life that connects people. Whether it's favorable or unfavorable, it gives them… — John Dickerson Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism is not about some state that appears out of nowhere and suddenly is all-powerful. There can't be any such thing. Totalitarianism… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were,… — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Copy Share Image
“The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against the poisoning of the soul must begin. Our whole public life today… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
For the last 250 years or so, secularists have waited patiently for the fulfilment of their prediction that religion would die out… — Daniel Taylor Copy Share Image
“It is in our own daily life that we are to look for the portents and the prodigies… Compared with this life,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In contemporary society secular humanism has been singled out by critics and proponents alike as a position sharply distinguishable from any religious… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“Public respect for politicians has long been declining, even as the population at large has been seduced into responding to each new… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
“Over a century ago, prodded by the demands of four million men and women just emerging from slavery, Americans made their first… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
“We deem it opportune to remind our children of their duty to take an active part in public life and to contribute… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
“Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus the production of bullshit is… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
“I could never feel like that about any public issue. Sometimes I wish I could. For me, if I'm honest, politics is… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“The effects can already be felt: with each passing day our public life is getting uglier. So it is encouraging to see… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“A man opposite me shifted his feet, accidentally brushing his foot against mine. It was a gentle touch, barely noticeable, but the… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“freedom of religion has both private and public dimensions. It is the freedom to pray, to worship, to commune with one’s fellows… — Timothy Shah Copy Share Image